At nightfall, in the place where thousands of Xianbei cavalry gathered outside Gaoliu City, thousands of people Changqiu Dunxu were talking with Wang Yan at night.

He is also a battle-hardened figure, having beheaded countless people in the Northlands.

But now that the siege is imminent, for some reason, he is a little uneasy in his heart.

"Master Wang, the big thing is coming, but my heart is becoming more and more uneasy. This hasn't happened in years. Yesterday I dreamed of the sun falling. Qiu Dun drank the wine of the Han people who had been plundered, and he was a little uneasy.

Wang Yan smiled when he heard this, and thought for a moment, "There is no need to worry about the head of the thousand people, the Han family has a saying, every time there is a big event, there must be a vision, and it is impossible to say that this is a sign that the head of the thousand people is going to take advantage of this to become famous." If we can capture Gaoliu City this time, the Great Khan will naturally have a heavy reward. ”

Qiu Dunxu, who was originally worried, smiled, and the doubts in his heart were reduced a little.

First, they Xianbei people have always believed in ghosts and gods, and secondly, since the unification of Xianbei, Tanshi Huai has clear rewards and punishments, as Wang Yan said, if he can really capture Gaoliu City this time, Tanshi Huai will definitely reward him. Naturally, his tribe would benefit from this.

It's just that he is also a figure from the Xianbei clan in the end, and he also knows some ways to win people over, so at this time he smiled at Wang Yan and said: "If you can capture this Gaoliu City this time, it is not my own credit, and Wang Junshi has also contributed a lot from it." When I return to the Great Khan, I will definitely report the merits of the general's division truthfully. If you want to come to the military division, there must be a lot of rewards. ”

"Then Yan is here to thank the thousands of people in advance." Wang Yan hurriedly thanked him.

He naturally saw through Qiu Dunyu's thoughts at a glance, and he just wanted to take the opportunity to pull the people around him, Tanshi Huai, to his side.

This scholar, who had long been accustomed to seeing the world in the officialdom of the Han Dynasty, laughed secretly in his heart.

The infighting skills of these foreigners are really far worse than their Han family.

It's just that he naturally won't break this person's mind, he is an outsider who is alone in Xianbei, if he has never even learned the left and right, I am afraid that he will die in the grassland a long time ago.

He raised the wine jar in his hand towards the Xianbei people opposite, and said with a smile: "Then Yan is here to congratulate the victory of the thousand people's long flag." ”

The night breeze blew, and a large flag was rolled up outside the tent.

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In Gaoliu City, although Li Yan handed over the matter of defending the city to Gao Shun and others, he still couldn't rest assured, and was pacing back and forth in the county government at this time.

After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't bear it anymore, went to the inner room to get a long sword, left the county office, and went straight to the west of the city.

Gaoliu is full of high mountains on both sides of the northwest of this place, there is the Wuhuan Duwei of the Han Dynasty in the east, and Beiping City in the south, and now Xianbei is coming from the west over the mountain, so naturally it will not be stupid enough to detour to other directions.

In addition, Xianbei is famous for its cavalry, and has never been good at attacking the city, so when he came to the south to attack the city before, he was mostly as fast as a front, and he was unprepared, taking advantage of the fear and panic of the people in the city, he swept into the city, and plundered and left.

It comes and goes like the wind, which is one of the reasons why the frontier land has been plundered repeatedly, but there is nothing to be done.

In fact, Li Yan was also frightened by Gao Shun and others that day, since they had already learned the news that Xianbei was coming to attack, it would be enough to close the city gate at that time, even if the Xianbei cavalry was powerful, what could they do?

It's just that he was finally persuaded by Gao Shun and others and decided to set up a plan to deal with those Xianbei people.

For Gao Shun and others, this matter is naturally a gamble on their lives, and for him, in addition to gambling on their lives, they are also gambling on their future.

He would have only needed to survive in Takayanagi City for a few more years before he could leave this barren land on the border.

Do more wrong, don't do well, has always been a wise saying in officialdom.

But now he decided to gamble with Gao Shun and others just because of a few words from them.

As for the reason for convincing him, it is actually very simple.

It's just four words.

Make a difference.

It is also a martial artist who practices martial arts, or a scholar who reads.

Let's ask the man of the Han family, who doesn't want to wave his sword, break the thief in battle, and sacrifice the enemy to His Majesty?

Although Li Yan was a weak reader, the scholars of the Han Dynasty were still a little different from the scholars of later generations.

The Song intended to defend the territory, while the Han intended to open the border.

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At the gate of Xicheng, Gao Shun and others were arranging the arrangement.

Standing next to Gao Shun was a middle-aged man with a somewhat pale face, this person's surname was Chen Mingwei, who was now the county lieutenant in Gaoliu City.

Before Li Yan arrived, this person had been in collusion with the previous county order, set up a name, and collected a lot of extra money, even if there were rats passing by in the county, they had to peel off a layer of skin.

That day, he was captured by Gao Shun's trapped camp, and he was naturally unwilling, but now when he looked at Gao Shun, his eyes were full of admiration.

He prides himself on not being a good man, greedy for money and lustful, and has never done any less oppressive and good things, but the only thing he likes in his life is military affairs.

It's just a matter of talking about things next to him, even if someone scolds him on the street for being greedy for money and lustful, he will laugh it off and be generous. But if it is said that he does not know soldiers, then it is no wonder that he is ruthless.

It's just that after getting along with Gao Shun and others for a few days, even he, a person who thinks he is very small-minded, has to admit one thing, that is, if these people in Gao Shun's hands are in the battle formation now, no matter who they are, they will have a headache.

This also made him feel a little more relieved, not that his own soldiers and horses were too poor, but that the opponent was too strong.

At this time, Li Yan came to the city gate and exchanged a few words with Chen Wei.

The two naturally have nothing to say, one looks down on each other's money-hungry life, and the other looks down on the other party's self-proclaimed Qingsuke. It's just that both sides can't do anything about each other, so they can only be out of sight and out of mind.

"Yanzhi, this is what you call those people in battle?" Li Yan looked at the people who were busy in the camp at the city gate.

The number of people is not much, at a glance there are only more than 200 people. Most of them are middle-aged people, and their stature is not tall. But if you look closely, you can see that their actions are extremely orderly, which is completely different from the county magistrate in Gaoliu County on the side.

Gao Shun said: "It's not a tool yet, which makes Li Xianjun smile." ”

"If this is not a weapon, what about my county guard in Takayanagi?" Li Yan smiled, meaning something.

Chen Wei on the side naturally knew what he meant, and if it was something else, he would have endured it, but the military matter was his rebellion, and he smiled when he heard this: "Li Xianjun's words are inappropriate, and our sons and daughters in Gaoliu County are not bad, but the people under Yanzhi are more powerful." ”

Li Yan looked at Gao Shun, and Gao Shun just nodded.

Gao Shun has always been upright, and he and Li Yan said that Gao Liu County's pawn was unbearable, so it was naturally compared to his trapped camp.

If you talk about combat power, the county soldiers in Gaoliu are still much stronger than the county soldiers in the Central Plains, after all, they are the soldiers in the border land for a long time, and no matter how bad they are, they are not far behind.

Li Yan suddenly remembered something, and asked with a smile: "I was in a hurry before, and I never asked why Yanzhi came to Gaoliu?" ”

"Shunben was a pioneer in the border between Hanoi and Youzhou, and later heard that Xianbei came south, so he came north with the guards in the villa, wanting to make some efforts to fight against Xianbei. I didn't want to run into a small number of Xianbei military horses along the way. I heard that their goal was in Takayanagi Castle, so they came to help day and night. Gao Shun's expression remained unchanged, these words were half-true and half-false, although he was upright, he was not inflexible.

When they were in Hanoi, the Sima family took care of them a lot, and indeed provided them with some land on the border, and these days there was Liu Bei constantly sent money from Luoyang, Gao Shun built a mountain villa in the name of clearing the wasteland, and received many displaced people. And many of the soldiers who fell into the camp were selected from among the outcasts.

The homeless are strong and strong, and more importantly, they are willing to endure hardships, and they can sacrifice their lives to fight if they can have a meal. Besides, the exiles between the annexes are still much better than the Central Plains people anyway.

Gao Shun didn't ask how much combat power these people could have, in his opinion, it was better to have 10,000 enemies than 1,000 people.

What he wants is obedience, so these people are his best choice, and later Qi Jiguang chose the Qi family army.

As for the reason why they came to Takayanagi this time, although part of it was to help the people of the Netherlands deal with Xianbei, but he actually had the intention of training troops.

No matter how elite the army is, if it has never seen blood, it cannot be called an elite army.

It's just that he naturally won't tell the truth to Li Yan and the others.

"Sure enough, Yan Zhao Duokang is a man of sad songs, and he came out of righteousness, and the ancients did not deceive me." Li Yan said with a smile.

"Yan Zhi is indeed a hero, especially this military training technique, which is really the only one I have seen in my life." Chen Wei rarely echoed Li Yan's words, he has been relying here these days, naturally in order to learn some skills in governing the army and training troops from Gao Shun.

The expressions of the two were seen by Gao Shun, and he had to sigh in his heart, the surname of the drama was not nonsense.

Although Gao Shun is upright, he also knows some human accidents.

He didn't agree to the method of seizing the city gate to persuade Li Yan, but the person surnamed Xi analyzed it for him at the time, and he really couldn't think about it, so he had to agree.

Now it seems that the reaction of these people is not bad at all as the surname drama said.

Li Yan smiled: "The next thing depends on Yanzhi." ”

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In the middle of the day, Gao Shun walked into a noisy wine house in Takayanagi City, there were many drinkers in the wine house, and the noise was connected.

Gao Shun stepped into a corner, where a young man in a crumpled robe was drinking and his face was flushed.

"Yan Zhi is here, sit down and drink quickly, I'll please." The young man smiled, raised his hand and patted his forehead, "I forgot, Yanzhi is not good at drinking." In this case, save a sum of money, and extend it, but I'm not stingy. ”

Gao Shun smiled and shook his head, this person was so depressed when he first invested in their villa.

According to this man's words at the time, the reason why he devoted himself to the mountain villa where they were located was because the mountain villa could provide three meals a day.

You must know that in the Han Dynasty, ordinary homes mostly had two meals a day, and only rich and noble families who were not short of money could eat three meals a day.

It's just that Gao Shun built the villa to recruit people for the purpose of forming a trap camp, and now there is no shortage of money, so Liu Bei personally set the rules for three meals a day in the villa.

At that time, this man came to the door, and the steward in the villa saw that he was weak and wanted to turn him away, but this man played his sword and sang at the gate of the villa.

The song is the song of Feng Yuanke and Meng Weijun in the past.

"The long gong is back! Eat no fish. ”

"The long gong is back! Out of the car. ”

"The long gong is back! No home! ”

He is different from Feng Yuan, he sighed three times in a row, and told himself that he had no ambition in his life.

If this person is a different allusion, those martial artists in the villa who have never read may not know what he means, but Feng Yuan has always been respected by the Han family ranger high rollers, so even the rangers know more about this allusion that made Feng Yuan famous.

At that time, although Gao Shun didn't know whether this person had the ability or not, he saw that he was a person who had read books, so he kept him.

When he came to Youzhou this time, he didn't want this person to go with him, he was a weak scholar, he couldn't go into battle to kill the enemy, not to mention, he couldn't say that he would drag them back.

didn't want to go to this high willow city, but this person helped him a lot.

Gao Shun sat down across from him.

The down-and-out scholar who claimed to be called Xi Zhong smiled: "How? Did Yanzhi suddenly think that I, a down-and-out literati, still had some ability? ”

Gao Shun tugged at the corners of his mouth, and he could be regarded as having laughed.

"Li Yan has a good reputation for being honest and honest, if it is in a stable time, in a peaceful place, he may be able to benefit one party. However, he is pedantic and observant, does not know military affairs, and is an official in a different place, so he can't go with Chen Wei and others. If he can't be filthy with the world, then he is destined to be difficult step by step. ”

Xi Zhong took a sip of wine, "Although Chen Wei is greedy for money and lustful, he is from a border person, especially in the military. At the beginning, we visited Takayanagi City secretly for many days, but we never heard that he was greedy for ink in military affairs. Even though he is not in the county, he has never slackened off in so many years of arming and fighting. ”

Gao Shun nodded, although Xi Zhong had also made it clear before he made the move that day, but now that he had some contact with the two, he realized that what Xi Zhong said was indeed not bad at all, as if he had been old friends with these two for many years.

Xi Zhong continued to laugh: "So these two people have always been in good shape. One person has the right and the other has soldiers, it stands to reason that Li Yan should be very simple to handle this person, but it may not be so easy for Jiang Long to take control of the head snake. ”

"So when there is a third-party strong person in the city, Yanzhi, what do you think they will do? Only in this way will they gather together under the great righteousness. Xi Zhong smiled, "And it is most suitable for you to be this third person." ”

"You don't like to drink, you have a straight temperament, and you are similar to Li Yan, so you can win his heart. You are good at training soldiers and have the talent of a commander, so Chen Wei, a soldier idiot, admires you. Therefore, the matter of asking you to seize Simon that day seems nonsense, but in fact, it is the fastest way to solve this matter. ”

Gao Shun was silent, now that things are as Xi Zhong expected, he naturally wants to say that Xi Zhong has the ability.

But things in this world often don't go as they should, and if things don't go as he expected, then what?

Gao Shun was not a person who could hide his thoughts, and he asked, "What if things don't go as you expected?" ”

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Xi Zhong was stunned for a moment, but quickly smiled, "You have two hundred traps in your hands that have infiltrated the city, and it is not difficult for you Gao Yanzhi to secretly control Li Yan and others." ”

"If Xianbei comes, as a last resort, you can also kill chickens and monkeys, and then push it to Xianbei, and you can also give them a name of loyalty and bravery. Compared with a big victory, the imperial court will not care about the few casualties in the far border. I can't even ask. ”

Gao Shun looked at him coldly, he couldn't imagine that Xi Zhong had such a vicious mind.

"Yanzhi doesn't need to look at me like this, it's not that you can't think of such a strategy, it's just that you are a loyal person, you can think about it, but you don't want to think about it."

"But how many people die and who die in a city, which is more important? It is not easy to choose, but it is good to choose loyalty. Xi Zhong laughed and drank the wine in his hand in one gulp.

This scholar, who has been in the land of Yingchuan for many years but is still down, smiled freely.

"After all, I'm a reader who has read the books of the sages crookedly."